We’ve already done a couple of posts on the “vagina shaming” of conservative women who voted Republican, but the hits just keep coming. Here’s the Atlantic’s Jemele Hill making the exact same argument: that white women are voting against their own interests to preserve the patriarchy.

It’s not just Texas when 53 percent of white women voted for Donald Trump. The data shows very clearly that there are white women voting against their own best interests to preserve a patriarchy that they believe will ultimately help them. Not all, but clearly the majority

This really is the theme of the day; thank goodness CNN’s Jim Acosta gave us a distraction by trying to muscle the microphone away from a female White House staffer.

Anyway, here’s a thread by author Jill Filipovic wondering what to do about the “white woman problem.”

I'll be honest that the DeSantis numbers don't surprise me. White women have long voted Republican, but have been (slowly) moving Dem, and educated white women are strong Dems. Trump had less support from white women than Romney, etc. But 76% for Kemp… racism is a helluva drug. https://t.co/8Qe0lxuB8D

Catch that from Elie Mystal? “White women gonna white.” But what can we do?

One question is what to do about this. i'm seeing a lot of calls for white women to come get other white women, and I agree. But I think what that analysis misses is just how divided white women are, especially by education & location (rural vs. urban especially).

I look around my friends, family, and even acquaintances and I don't really know women who voted for Trump or who support the GOP. That's because my community is urban and educated (and diverse, but we're talking about white women here). Maybe there's a high school rando on FB?

So yes, doing that close-touch work within your family and community is key. But so are the bigger shifts that seem to give women more freedom, at which point they trend much more liberal – higher education is a big one. That's the long game, but it's crucial (for men too).

There's a reason the GOP undercuts education and the reproductive freedoms that allow women to pursue education. There's a reason it pushes a model of vulnerable white femininity protected by white male authority. That keeps them in power and it keeps a racist base more pliable.

And make no mistake: White women, like white men, are hurt by GOP policies. But they benefit socially from our racial hierarchy in very real ways. That's their primary form of identity – not being white, if you asked them, but being "normal," the default, a "real American."

One key – and this goes for white men too – is to open up other forms of identity and purpose that aren't tied to nostalgia and tradition. When your sense of self is tied entirely to a fiction of what used to be, you'e going to stay stuck. One reason education is a powerful tool.

So yes, 100% push your white friends and family members on their racism and on their voting preferences. Definitely don't date or marry men who vote against your rights (I would also say don't socialize at all with racists). But that can't be the whole plan.

Also, keep in mind that white men vote as much more of a bloc than white women, and are truly the GOP base. So if you see men out there going on and on about white women with little or nothing to say about white men… pause and ask what's going on there.

To be clear, none of this is to say that educated, urban whites aren't racist. It manifests differently – around public education, for example, which @nhannahjones has written about extensively. That is some of the close-touch work those of us in liberal enclaves must do.

Yes. This idea that white women are a unified bloc, and one white woman will listen to another in a "Oh, hello fellow white woman!" is like something an 18-year-old Tumblerite came up with. That isn't how people work or understand themselves. It's totally facile. https://t.co/xWYWuRyqgE

2/ The only way anyone could believe this is the only way anyone could believe that OTHER big, broadly-defined groups all have the same basic values and view themselves as a unified bloc: total lack of awareness of the actual dividing lines w/in that group.

Certainly far more likely than, Jill Filipovic, NYC liberal journalist, who is a black man convincing a white evangelical Houstonian . . . Representation choices in advertising for example are based on the idea that a group responds better to those who look like them.

I'm sorry, but women aren't slaves here. Women have brains, are independent (majority anyhow), and all the women I know don't vote with their vagina, but with their brain. They vote for the best candidate, not whom their spouse tells them to, regardless of gender.